Thomas Vallianeth

Thomas Vallianeth is a Partner – Technology, Media and Telecom, Policy Advisory, Artificial Intelligence at Trilegal and a Partner in the firm’s TMT practice, focusing on Telecommunications Law. He has nearly a decade of experience advising on regulatory, transactional, litigation and policy matters.

He regularly advises clients across a wide range of sectors, including artificial intelligence, e-commerce, telecom, social media, payments and financial services, and gaming. His practice covers a broad spectrum of issues, including data protection and cybersecurity, platform governance, content moderation and regulation, mapping laws, M2M and IoT, telecom service structuring, outsourcing arrangements, intellectual property, payments and digital lending structures, AI-related issues, and other emerging technology matters.

Thomas also advises on corporate and commercial transactions in these sectors, and has experience in disputes involving technology and telecom issues. He regularly supports clients on strategic responses to cybercrime incidents, law enforcement requests for access to data, and related risk-management matters.

In addition, he has advised a range of clients on policy mandates and government engagements concerning platform governance, data protection, mapping, the OSP framework and AI regulation. He has also been part of the team representing private parties before the Supreme Court of India in the litigation challenging Aadhaar, India’s universal identity project.

His representative clients include Apple, LinkedIn, Xiaomi, Anthropic, Booking.com and the Wikimedia Foundation. He is recognised as a ‘Key Lawyer’ for TMT by Legal 500 (2024, 2026). He studied at National Law University, Jodhpur, and is admitted to the Bar Council of Karnataka.